After having to cancel one too many raids with Kalevlased (Al'Akir's Estonian national ffa guild) we decided to split off and form a real raiding guild with no casual aspect and ability to recruit international players. Grunge knew a couple of guys from Bad Karma who were interested in a pve guild. So it went.

22 May 2007

The Black Temple (patch 2.1.0) released.

25 May 2007

Apex guild created with the help of randoms lowbies form Durotar. Better players form Kalevlased and Bad Karma were asked to write applications / introductions.

Kael'thas Sunstrider final boss in Tempest Keep down. First batch of guys attuned to Hyjal and Black Temple.

The Black Temple era

01 Jul 2007

First day in T6. Rage Winterchill & High Warlord Naj'entus killed. Almost got Supremus too. Not every player can participate, because not everyone is attuned, good old days...

02 Jul 2007

Supremus & Shade of Akama killed

03 Jul 2007

Schism joins as shadow priest. #45. First guy to join after the creation. 44 joined in the beginning, so this is #45.

Anetheron killed

04 Jul 2007

Laxxamousse joins as feral druid. #46.

10 Jul 2007

Kettle joins as healer priest. #47.

Kaz'Rogal killed

~16 Jul 2007

Kukkur quits.
Leugens quits.
Nwo ragequit. Kept dying on hyjal trash due to overaggro. This was a guy who had a habit of deleting 80 chars when he wasn't happy with dps these chars could do. He came back this time, though.

19 Jul 2007

Azgalor killed

Giuly quits, transferred off the server after Azgalor kill w/o giving a reason.

Jul 2007

Failed raids on Archimonde. This guy was just evil before nerfs.

Dragonforce quits because he can dish it out but can't take it. First to whine about other player's mistakes and emoqqboohoo if someone points out his fuckup. The sun seemed a little brighter and grass a little greener on that day.
Windy also quits around this time.

23 Jul 2007

Highsmith "quits wow". Later found out that he actually left to join Showdown and was kicked as a failure just a few days later.

Mother Shahraz killed. Someone used a bandage on the killshot, this somehow became a thing for a while in our killshots.

20 Aug 2007

Illidari Council killed

Had some time left after killing these guys and decided to do a quick "memory refresh" on Archimonde which turned into a kill. Archimonde was nerfed by this time, so not a big shocker.

21 Aug 2007

Zugzog emo drama quits because Narkara said mean and hurtful things about his gear and shattered his dream of becoming "main tank". This is right before the last boss in the game, which required 3 tanks and we only have 3 tanks with this emo fucker included.

28 Aug 2007

Illidan Stormrage down.

Zugzog did stay long enough to help us kill it, though we could have done it without him – we pimped Laxxamousse with fire resistance gear for offtanking.

Fall 2007

Exact dates are unknown.

Gurth quits.
Kettle quits to play less hardcore on old server.
Pzion joins as shadow priest. #53.
Abradix joins as feral druid tank. #54.
Frenzy joins as restoration shaman. #55.
Illuria joins as a hunter. #56.
Weedo joins as restoration druid. #57.
Mironir re-joins, irl issues seem to be sorted out.
Aeyrah joins as healer priest. #58. Fails trial.
Drokh joins as colorblind F-16 fighter pilot who is also a pregnant girl and who is also a guy whose girlfriend attacked him with a hammer. This guy was batshit insane. #59. Fails trial.

17 Nov 2007

Neroth gets kicked. Fail player.

12 Dec 2007

Gers joins as healer priest. #60.

26 Dec 2007

Diawo joins as a protection warrior. #61. Lied about his age, he was maybe 16 when he joined. Was more mature than most 20+ people who have come though the guild.

27 Dec 2007

Laxxamousse quits.

07 Jan 2008

Ocram joins as warlock. #61.
Ques joins as holy paladin. #62.

15 Jan 2008

Synesthesia gets kicked. Afk, missing.

16 Jan 2008

Eidzh joins as protection warrior. This was one of the guys who wanted to join at the beginning, but since he was playing a rogue and we had six rogues, then was turned down. So he rerolled and joined like this. #63.

19 Jan 2008

Strongbad left to pvp on another server. This was 2nd time he quit, he also had some "lost interest" moment around summer.

Vaim quits. This guy spent almost all of his time in the guild in backup, collecting DKP. Then bought a bunch of stuff and sold his account. Yay for abusing loopholes.
Rahi joins as hunter. #73. Got hacked or trolled or something strange. Fell off the radar.

Dii joins as the rogue who has to cold blood mutilate Kel'Thuzad's abomination. With no tricks. Before a tank can even touch it. On our so-far deathless Immortal run. Guess how that went. #87. One of the fastest failed trials.

Ulduar released.
Started raiding at ~15:00cet.
Ended raiding at ~05:00cet.
This was a wild ride.

All Ulduar normal modes cleared after three days.

We didn't really do many killshots or news posts of hardmode progress, not sure why.
It did take us 2 months to get to Algalon and another three resets to down him.

24 Apr 2009

Lose Your Illusion, Thorim hard mode down.

26 Apr 2009

Bunny raid.

It was the first time the "easter" even was held in WoW. We initially misunderstood Hard Boiled achievement – we thought that we need to travel from Razor Hill to Un'goro as bunnies and lay the egg that way. Tired from raid and all. Of course the real achievement was much lamer and easier than that, but we decided to do our version anyway.

Nitra gets kicked for being inactive.
Zhala gets kicked for being bad and useless as tank and utterly useless as offspec.
Sharp quits, real life.

03 Jun 2009

Gers quits after almost being driven out by Giskler. Gers really couldn't handle more complex stuff like Freya, Algalon and Mimiron and his muteness - inability or unwillingness to communicate made things even worse. Gers was our designated legendary Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings collector, so that went well.

05 Jun 2009

Sayomi joins as warlock. #97.

06 Jun 2009

Adrasielolz joins as death knight. #98. Fails trial.

07 Jun 2009

Fedux joins as rogue. #99.

10 Jun 2009

Lessar joins as healer priest. #100.

11 Jun 2009

Zelretch joins as hunter. #101. Leaves before trial is over to join Last Resort, fails his trial there.
Felform quits, real life.
Kettle quits, real life.

13 Jun 2009

Firefighter, Mimiron hard mode down, Algalon unlocked. Progress was surprisingly easy on this. Took less than 100 pulls. Epic kill, nearly everybody died, Ccd was the only one left alive. Corpse bugged we had to mount an operation with sactifice rotations, cloaks, lay on hands etc to loot the chest.

Mironir quits, developed some e-romance with Giskler during Ulduar, moved in with him.
Giskler quits, the e-romance thing.
Lolpeoz quits. No e-romance here.

17 Jul 2009

Silvie joins as a terribad restoration shaman, that just can't be replaced. #108.

27 Jul 2009

Kallevra joins as hunter (Last Resort!). #109. Fails trial. Dramawhoring and whatever.
Sycd joins as rogue. #110. Kills Algaon with us, then transfers off the server the next day. Oookay...

06 Aug 2009

Mikehunt joins as a lying psycho balance druid. #111. Fails trial.

09 Aug 2009

Alone in the Darkness, Yogg-Saron hard mode down. We pretty much didn't care for this one at all. It was deemed to be near impossible at the time (5 empowered adds in p3). And we also had 1-2 hunters max in the guild. When it finally did get nerfed, we raced Immersion for it, but lost. The whole "progress" after the nerf was just a couple of hours, so no much of a race there. Of course that didn't stop Immersion from being all epeen about it, nevermind that we beat them on all other bosses in the instance by a long shot.

Abradix quits, real life. He was one of the officers and one of the best players and coolest person overall.

This was around the time when most players were *really* fed up with the game – limited attempts bullshit and the "goal" was to kill everything with no wipes. And we just lost server first Tribute to Insanity to Immersion. Morale was shit, many players were thingking of calling it quits.

Lich King normal mode killed. Notice how this is one week later from when he became available. Yay for limited attempts and idiots like Arjor.

19 Feb 2010

Rivaw quits after his family get into a terrible car accident which kills his father and sister. Terrible. And fabricated. A simple "cya bye" will suffice, if you want to quit. Why the fuck would anyone invent this.

We also had a bunch of e-friends in the guild – later dubbed "trade channel heroes" – who decided to leave the guild around this time, in the middle of progress mode. They didn't leave for a better guild, they formed their own 10man guild "Don't drop the soap" and went to raid Trial of the Crusader. Why would a sane mind do this? Well, these guys weren't exactly sane.

Arjor gets kicked for being terrible. Most classic example would be to listen to tactics, asked if he understood the tactic, responded yes, and then execute something completely different, fail, die and lose one limited attempt.

Megaleen gets kicked in the middle of the raid for afking. This is the first time someone gets the boot like this. Quite normal for this guy to afk for an hour because "afk, pizza". Joins "Don't drop the soap".

Lich King killed, world #39. Epic kill. We only had a few attempts left when it went down. Everything was going smoothly until almost everyone got killed at the end of the final phase. Lich King did his thing where he pulls everyone into Frostmourne room and the only player alive at this point was Tonberry who - as a shadow priest - could solo the entire room. Topside, Jules ankhed up and attacked Lich King, killing him.

This was our lineup when we killed Lich King.
*** - Joined on first day
** - Killed Kil'jaeden in Apex
* - Joined before Wrath of the Lich King

Tanks

Diawo **
Malm **
Tiloh

Healers

FeyzVivecaArawyn **
Shaye **
Intactlol *
TweatRiha *
Silvie

Strength Damage

SlavikMinariFlapsiiBushidou

Agility Damage

CestyararGeophQuleGrraoNoxeWelt ***
Jules **

Intellect Damage

Ccd ***
Prometheus/Pyrene **
Tms/TonberryPunnu ***
Scoop ***
Ocramus

Overall, Icecrown Citadel was really bad for us. Burnout from this and expansion ending made a lot of players quit.

13 May 2010

Qule quits. Later joins Immersion.

16 May 2010

Intactlol quits.
Arawyn quits.

25 players in the guild now.

You can't really have a guild with this few players. I got in touch with Giskler and Mironir who had built a smaill casual guild in their retirement and were looking to maybe step back into high-end raiding. I told them to pick their best and brightest and all join Apex. Most players who came were horrible, but it gave us some time to recruit and rebuild.

Jobr gets kicked for being uncontrollable loose cannon, whose looseness usually lead to wipes and or problems. Also, exploiting fishing on main. Also, he was *never* wrong, even when falling down Nefarian's elevator, it was gravity's fault, not his.
Falken quits.
Tunx joins as feral druid. #184. Fifty world firsts! This can't be a bad player!

10 Apr 2011

Eskotroll gets removed. Missing.

14 Apr 2011

Fanzer gets asked to step down from raiding.
Natulini secretly leaves for Envy, because people told him mean and hurtful things whenever he overaggroed and died at the beginning of every fucking encounter.

Largely thanks to the billion-trillion LFR raids before and after main raids which enabled us to get hugely overpowered 4x T13 on some characters. Also another billion-trillion LFR raids before and after main raids.

16 Dec 2011

Warmaster Blackhorn killed

And a few billion-trillion more LFR raids before and after main raids. This didn't get mind-numbing at all, no.

20 Dec 2011

Solid quit.

30 Dec 2011

"Just one more last try, just one. Or two. Or several." raid on Spine.

01 Jan 2012

Spine of Deathwing down, world #13.

Started out as a horrible shitboss, turned into a rather enjoyable encounter. Random for tanks, but very repeatable and methodical otherwise. We were really close to killing it on 30th and not wanting to let go, we ended up raiding for almost 12h straight into wee hours of the morning. Kill itself was almost textbook.

03 Jan 2012

Madness of Deathwing down, world #13. Spine was the real endboss, this one was nothing in comparison.

This was our lineup when we killed Madness of Deathwing.
***** - Joined on first day
**** - Killed Kil'jaeden in Apex
*** - Joined before Wrath of the Lich King
** - Killed Lich King in Apex
* - Joined before Cataclysm

Noit fails trial.
Zngya gets kicked for being mostly clueless on encounters, never really understanding tactics. Also for selling epic gems on AH then asking gbank to gem both his main and alt characters. Nothing special as dps either.
Geoph main switches to rogue Geoph

Lynnininini leaves for Envy to play more with his old friends from Pulse.
Pingwing leaves for Envy because Lynnininini left.
Kiie leaves for Envy because Lynnininini and Pingwing left.
Greph leaves for Envy because Lynnininini and Pingwing and Kiie left.
Bangerz leaves for Envy because Lynnininini and Pingwing and Kiie and Greph and Mcfluffy left.
Mcfluffy leaves for Envy because Lynnininini and Pingwing and Kiie and Greph and Bangerz left.
Varda leaves for... not Envy.
Kaazul leaves because Varda left.
Algoma leaves because Lynnininini and Pingwing and Kiie and Greph and Mcfluffy and Bangerz left.

This was our lineup when we killed Garrosh:
## - Joined on first day
# - Killed Kil'jaeden in Apex
@ - Killed Lich King in Apex
^^ - Joined before Cataclysm
^ - Killed Madness of Deathwing in Apex
** - Joined before Mists of Pandaria
* - Killed Garrosh in Apex